KINGDON-WARD, F.

Burma's Icy Mountains

London: Cape, 1949

8vo, pp. 287. Original blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Two foldout maps. A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, light marking to (blue) front panel, spine a little sunned, and with light edgewear to spine head.

First edition.

As well as a mastery of his subject, Francis Kingdon-Ward [1885-1958] had a deep curiosity about the terrain and people he encountered during his botanical expeditions. The result was a series of absorbing travel-cum-textbooks, engagingly written, attractive to the general reader as well as the specialist, whose author was one of the forefathers of popular science.